The Breakdown: How to Bust the Filibuster The Breakdown: How to Bust the Filibuster
Could the Senate start getting things done, if only legislators didn't have to face filibuster threats? This week on The Breakdown: the history of the filibuster, and how to get ri...
Jan 7, 2011 / Chris Hayes
Obama’s New Wall Street White House Obama’s New Wall Street White House
Ari Berman explains the message Obama is sending by appointing William Daley and Gene Sperling to his White House team.
Jan 7, 2011 / Democracy Now!
Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase
In the spring of 1942, three years after the fall of Spain to Franco’s Nationalists, a suitcase containing an archive of 4,500 negatives of photographs of the Spanish Civil W…
Jan 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Who is the Real John Boehner? Who is the Real John Boehner?
Katrina vanden Heuvel reminds us that John Boehner is more than a harmless tan and some tears.
Jan 6, 2011 / The Ed Show
Are We Running Out of Oil? Are We Running Out of Oil?
Dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health. But we'll be in even deeper trouble when the world's supply of oil begins to run out.
Jan 5, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions
In Dave Zirin’s New Film, Sports is ‘Not Just a Game’ In Dave Zirin’s New Film, Sports is ‘Not Just a Game’
The new documentary from The Nation's explores the intersection of sports and politics in America.
Jan 4, 2011 / Media Education Foundation
Slide Show: Meet New Committee Chairs Working on Energy, Education, Labor Slide Show: Meet New Committee Chairs Working on Energy, Education, Labor
Now that the Republicans have regained control of the House, chairmanships for many House committees previously headed by Democrats have fallen into Republican hands. How important…
Jan 4, 2011 / The Nation
Slide Show: CEO Bonus Season Is Here Slide Show: CEO Bonus Season Is Here
CEO bonus season is approaching, and despite a 9.8 percent unemployment rate, record-breaking poverty figures and more than 1 million expected foreclosures, top executives are raking in breathtaking sums—even while laying off hundreds of employees. According to a report from the Institute for Policy Studies, CEO compensation reached record levels in 2009, and the companies who laid off the most employees reaped around 42 percent greater total compensation than the average S&P 500 company executive.
Dec 30, 2010 / The Nation
Slide Show: Remembering Those We Lost in 2010 Slide Show: Remembering Those We Lost in 2010
We recently inaugurated Lived History, a new section of TheNation.com designed to honor, remember and pay tribute to the dearly departed who have made significant contributions to bettering our world. Each week we feature a remembrance of a member of the progressive community, either well known or more obscure, whose remarkable accomplishments demand recognition. In the process, we hope to be able to highlight and recover some of the more important but often obscure periods of our history that demonstrate the progressive tradition in American life. Here are a few of the notable individuals we lost in 2010.
Dec 30, 2010 / The Nation
Slide Show: The Progressive Honor Roll 2010 Slide Show: The Progressive Honor Roll 2010
"The year 2010 will not be remembered as a halcyon year for progressives," writes John Nichols in his Progressive Honor Roll for this year. "But in such years the truest believers and battlers stand out all the more clearly, and patterns are set for the victories of the years to come." Here, then, are the Most Valuable Progressives of 2010 and the groundwork they're laying for 2011.
Dec 30, 2010 / The Nation